“I heard that whisper.”

From Made in Italy.

When his ex-wife, Ruth (Yolanda Kettle), threatens to sell the art gallery that he manages, Jack (Micheál Richardson) reaches out to his estranged father, Robert (Liam Neeson), for help fixing up and selling their long-abandoned country home in Italy.  Both father and son have not been to the Italian house since the death of Jack’s mom decades before, but they are both surprised to find how decrepit and run-down the home is.  With only a month to raise enough money to buy the gallery from Ruth, Robert and Jack hire real estate agent Kate (Lindsay Duncan) to sell the property, but she says the property would only be sellable if the pair drastically fixed up the home first.  The more time that Robert spend’s at his late wife’s old home, the more reluctant he is to give it up, but Jack refuses to give up on buying the gallery, so the two find their already-stressed relationship even more pressed.  After another frustrating argument with his father, Jack goes into the nearby village, where he meets the sweet, but spunky restauranteur Natalia (Valeria Bilello) and the two form a quick friendship.  Natalia soon begins to help the father and son fix up the home in preparation for the potential buyers that Kate begins bringing by to see the house.  The work on the house pushes Jack and Robert to confront the past, but as they made progress on the home repairs, it also slowly begins to give the father and son a small bit of hope for the future.

This movie manages to perfectly walk the line between drama and comedy. Real life father and son, Neeson and Richardson bring palpable pain to their characters which only helps the hope that tries to thrive throughout the film to be that much more powerful.  Made in Italy is a sweet reminder of the power of love, family, and what really matters.

| Rated: R| Running Time: 94 minutes |Genre: comedy/romance|

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 6* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 0 of 10

|AVAILABLE FOR HOME VIEWING|